Stove-plate fastening



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STOVE PLATE FASTENING. N0. 374,666. Patented Dec. 13, 1887.

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BENJAMIN D. FERRIS, OF PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

STOVE-PLATE FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,666, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed February 18. 1886. Serial No. 192,439.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, BENJAMIN D. FERRIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, haveinvented an Improvement 1 in Stove-Plate Fastenings,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the attaching especially of nickeled ornamental plates to stoves; and its object is to afford asimpler and cheaper means than has hitherto been employed, one that will admit of quickly removing and replacing a plate without the loosening of screws, and one that is not liable to rust in its place or clog with deposits that interfere with the parts readily parting. By my plan the plates can be removed at any time to admit of their cleaning or during the process of polishing the stove. These objects I accomplish by the means set forth in the accompanying drawings, in which similar parts bear similar letters of reference.

Figure 1 shows the back of a plate just as it is cast with my fastening. Figs. 2 and 3 repre sent a plate held in place by my plan.

Fig. 1 represents a plate with my form of.

fastening-hook e just asitcomes from the mold. The object of post (I under the hook,as shown, is to save the hook from injury during the act of milling the castings. The post is removed by a slight hammer-blow. The boss 0 is a part of the plate a, being cast integral with it, and the hook e is secured therein during the act of casting,the hook being held in the sand with an end projecting into the mold, so that the melted iron flows around it.

Figs. 2 and 3 represent the. stove-plate b as No model.)

provided with a perforation, n, and below the perforation a slight elevation, f, beveled from its lower edge toward the perforation. The plate a, which maybe a name or any ornamental plate is shown in position. The boss 0 is made long enough to project into the perforation n, so that when the plate a is in its proper place, said boss will rest in the bottom of the perforation, the boss acting as a stop to prevent undue pressure on the base of the hook e, which might cause it to loosen its springpressure on the incline f.

Fig. 3 shows the plate a simply set to its place. If a little pressure beapplied to it-,thc boss 1 will lodge at the bottom of the perforation n,and the hook e,sliding upon theincline f, affords a spring-pressure which holds the plate a securely in its place, and yet permits of easy removal.

I. know that cast hooks in various forms have been used for attaching stove-plates, and my improvements relate to wrought or steel wire hooks and the method of securing them in the process of casting the plates.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

In a st0ve-plate fastening, the combination, with a plate, 12, provided with an incline, f, and perforation n, of plate a, having a boss, 0, projecting into said perforation n,and a springhook, e, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

BENJAMIN D. FERRIS.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN LENT, PETER FERRIs. 

